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  Re: Football numbering Re: UK 2000?
 
N. Hoogerbrug <ringebu@knoware.nl> wrote in message news:38347F42.1B3589...ware.nl... (...) Read (URL) German. But it aint clear why the hack Americans call a rugby like and related (...) From what I hear American Football is a derivative of Rugby. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Football numbering Re: UK 2000?
 
(...) Well the full name of Rugby is Rugby Football, this is different from Association Football - which we shortened to soccer but then got rid of that stupid word and so had football and rugby. Carbon 60 (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Football numbering Re: UK 2000?
 
(...) Actually, it's the field (in American Football) that's known as the Gridiron. Why, I have no idea. I don't watch sports. eric (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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